<p>The Attalla City Board of Education on Thursday at a special called meeting approved the hiring of Jeff Colegrove as the new principal at Etowah High School.</p><p>Colegrove, currently Etowah's assistant principal, will succeed John Serafini, who is retiring as principal effective June 30.</p><p>Serafini has been principal at the school since 2005.</p><p>Colegrove is an Etowah alumnus. He graduated from Jacksonville State in 1997 and last year earned a master's degree from the University of Alabama.</p><p>He was an assistant baseball coach for the Blue Devils from 1992 to 2005, and head baseball coach from 2005 to 2009.</p><p>He taught at Etowah from 1997 to 2009.</p><p>Colegrove then moved to Gadsden City High School as an assistant football and baseball coach. He returned to Etowah last year as assistant principal.</p><p>“I'm excited to get going and maintain the foundation established by people like Danny Golden, David Bowman and John Serafini,” he said.</p><p>Golden, a member of the Etowah County Board of Education, and Bowman, now superintendent of Attalla City Schools, are former Etowah principals.</p>